Who knows man. You don't see CATs for sale that often so maybe people are trying to push up the prices of the Kitten to compensate? I mean if you're looking for a 1 VCO monosynth I'm sure you could do a lot worse, but the CAT is in a whole different league IMO.

On that note I've had quite a few comments about my CAT video this week on YouTube. Wonder if it's recently been posted somewhere that receives a decent amount of traffic?

The Kitten may be more rare, but sonically less diverse than The Cat.I would love to see some real data on the revs of the Cat (from the first version all the way to the SRM), online info seems inaccurate and mangled.

Oh, I'm not eaten up by it - but I appreciate the words of encouragement.

I just saw one go for over $1600 and was curious if there was a valid reason. I really don't believe I've seen a single OSC synth go for that much ever. I thought maybe it was featured on The Hills or something.

I think I am finally going to take mine in. I found a reliable tech in town I can trust and I'm going to have him calibrate it and see if that fixes the VCO1 sound output issue and to have more of a look of it doesn't. I'm also going to ask if he's up for doing some mods outlined in the manual and originally offered by CAT. Nothing too intense or hard for him like modularizing it but even just throwing a HP/LP switch on the filter and a white/pink noise switch on would be great.

And Jambo maybe this is the link to your vids that's causing a ruckus?

Damn... I shouldn't be reading any of this... I was just about the put the ol' Cat on the block (again!!!)... I somehow convinced myself that a FR XS would pretty much do everything the Cat does, and then some. But I haven't actually tried the XS yet, so I guess I can't really make that judgement yet! I know it certainly won't create that pure late-70s raw sound, but maybe that's ok...

(and back OT, paying more for a Kitten than a Cat is plain ridiculous)

I'm in the middle of "sorta" fixing a Cat... Let me tell you what; the Cat can produce bass tones that rival the MiniMoog in that one-of-a-kind smooth, textured way. Trust me, we compared. Too bad it's missing VCO2 at the moment.. does that technically make it a Kitten?

No but seriously, the Kitten should not be selling for more than the Cat.. that's like seeing an ARP Axxe selling for more than an Odyssey.

WhinyLittleRunt wrote:Let me tell you what; the Cat can produce bass tones that rival the MiniMoog in that one-of-a-kind smooth, textured way.

Too bad it's missing VCO2 at the moment.. does that technically make it a Kitten?

I have an SRM. The bass tones I think are why I'm going to keep this forever. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. It can do so much. So smooth, so nice. It's noise is also amazing. Better than any noise I've heard on any other synth.

I hear ya about missing a VCO too. So maybe this is a common problem? I mean I can use it to modulate VCO2 and the filter all the controls work but I just can't get the oscillator solo to output sound or mix it with VCO2. I'm finally taking it to the shop next week. To have a calibration first and if that doesn't solve it, I'll have him look further into getting sound out of it. I'm also going to see if he'd be up for modding the filter a bit. Adding 12/24 db, Lo/Hi switches and maybe a pink/white noise switch.

See one. Grab one. One day the prices will go flying up and leave people in the dust.

Yeah, I can tell you it won't be a calibration problem. The way our tech was scratching his head over it wasn't too reassuring! And he is an expert! I think it's just a very complicated circuit I guess...